Carrying billets backward and forward between his patron and the ugliest maids of honour.
出自: Ld MacaulaySome of our men..were employed in cutting down trees, and splitting them into billets.
出自: G. AnsonA bomb had fallen almost next door and the shop was crutched with wooden billets.
出自: F. Raphael"drop me a line when you get there"
"he occupied a post in the treasury"